Casualty Collection (page 9)

Siege of Delhi, Indian Mutiny, September 1857. Colonel Campbells troops storming the Cashmere Gate after engineers had blown it up

Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, Crimean War, 25 October, 1854 (early 20th century). Lord Raglan gave the order for the disastrous British cavalry charge, immortalised in Tennysons poem

Fall of the British garrison at Jamestown, South Africa, Boer War, 1901. British soldiers, some of them wounded, marching into imprisonment after surrendering to the Boers

Blowing up of the Cashmere Gate, Delhi, Indian Mutiny, 1857. Shot through the arm and leg, Lieutenant Salkeld hands a slow match to Corporal F Burgess

Death of Nelson on board HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 (1827). One of Britains greatest military figures, Admiral Nelson (1758-1805)

Death of Brigadier Adrian Hope, Indian Mutiny, 15 April 1858. The death of Brigadier Hope during the British attack on Fort Roodamow

Mutineers attacking the magazine at Delhi, Indian Mutiny, 11 May 1857 (c1900). On the orders of Lieutenant George Willoughby, who died of his wounds defending the garrison, the magazine was blown up

The Revenge engaging the Spanish fleet off Flores, 1591 (c1900). Artist: TM Robinson
The Revenge engaging the Spanish fleet off Flores, 1591 (c1900). Cut off from the rest of the English fleet, the Revenge, under the command of Sir Richard Grenville (c1542-1591)

Battle of Alma, Crimean War, 20 September 1854 (c1860). French commanders with advancing infantry. 26, 000 British troops commanded by Lord Raglan and 24

Russians routing Bulgarians in a cavalry skirmish. Chromolithograph from a 10th century Sclavonian manuscript in the Vatican Library

Battle of Hastings, 1066 (1070s). Harold IIs (c1022-1066) Anglo-Saxon troops (left) led by an armoured standard bearer and a warrior with an axe, confront Norman cavalryman armed with lances

Rescue workers releasing a man from a bomb damaged building, World War II, 1940. The large-scale German bombing campaign directed at Britains cities began in August 1940

Explosion at the police station on the Rue des Bons-Enfants, Paris, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Explosion at the police station on the Rue des Bons-Enfants, Paris, 1892. On 8 November 1892, an anarchist named Emile Henry deposited a bomb at the offices of the Carmaux Mining Company in Paris

Cremation of the Dahomey corpses, Africa, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Cremation of the Dahomey corpses, Africa, 1892. Between 1892 and 1894 Dahomey was conquered by French troops from Senegal and incorporated into Frances West African colonies

A firedamp explosion, France, 1892. Artist: F Meaulle
A firedamp explosion in a French coal mine, France, 1892. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 2nd April 1892

Spartacus and Hermann in the Arena, late 19th century. Spartacus (c109 BC-71 BC), Roman gladiator, victorious in the arena, surrounded by the bodies of fallen adversaries

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), English nursing pioneer and hospital reformer. Florence Nightingale inspecting the wards of the military hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-1856)

Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 (1817). Napoleon (1769-1821) French soldier and emperor, fleeing from the battlefield of Waterloo after his defeat by the British under Wellington

La Prise de Paris, May 1871. French government advancing through the streets to recapture Paris from the Paris Commune. From a private collection

Battle of Majuba Hill, 1st Boer War, 26-27 February 1881. Artist: Richard Caton Woodville II
Battle of Majuba Hill, 1st Boer War, 26-27 February 1881. British troops under Major-General George Colley took Majuba Hill. The Boers counterattacked, taking the British by surprise

Capture of Ghunzee by British forces, Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80), March 1880. Tinted lithograph

American War of Independence, 1770, (1883)
Boston Massacre, 5 March 1770, (1883). Skirmish between British troops and crowd in Boston Massachusetts. Five protesters killed, the first being Crispus Attucks, a black sailor and former slave

Death of Sir Philip Sydney, 1586 (c1815). Philip Sidney (1554-1586) English soldier, statesman poet, and patron of poets was appointed Governor of Flushing in the Netherlands in 1585

Once More into the Sun, Franco-Prussian War, 1870. Wounded German officers in the Germany military hospital at Versailles being given fresh air and sunshine to aid their recovery

Casualty of the 2nd Boer War, 1899-1902. A wounded British officer in a railway carriage with his wife and daughter on the last lap of his journey home from South Africa

All That Was Left of Them, 2nd Boer War, 1899. Artist: Richard Caton Woodville II
All That Was Left of Them, 2nd Boer War, 1899. The Black Watch after the Battle of Magersfontein, 11 December 1899. In the week from 10 to 17 December 1899 the British under General Methuen suffered

Joseph Chamberlain, British politician, 1903. Chamberlain, British Liberal statesman, as Secretary of State for the Colonies (1895-1903)

92nd Gordon Highlanders in retreat, Battle of Majuba Hill, 1st Boer War, 26-27 February 1881. British troops under Major-General George Colley took Majuba Hill

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